Spotify pays out a proportionate share of subscription or advertising income that they receive from their customers to the artists and labels whose content they offer for streaming.
This share of income changes every month and depends on a multitude of factors such as Spotify's total income from their subscribers, the subscription tier of each subscriber, the total number of streams that take place in Spotify in a given month, and the total number of an Artist's or Label's content streams in their store in a given month.
Because these factors change each month, there is not a specific amount per stream or download that can be stated.
Please note: Spotify will not pay out royalties for the following conditions:
- Tracks that have not had at least 1,000 streams in the past 12 months.
- Tracks that Spotify has categorized as noise (ie: non-music, spoken word) that are less than 2 minutes in length.
- Track streams that have been determined by Spotify to be artificial.*
*Spotify may charge a fee for Artificial Streams that exceed 1,000 or more streams where 90% or more of those streams were within a calendar month.